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Benchmarking The Linux 2.6.24 Through 2.6.29 Kernels

03-24-2009, 01:10 PM

Phoronix: Benchmarking The Linux 2.6.24 Through 2.6.29 Kernels

With the release yesterday of the Linux 2.6.29 kernel, we have set out to explore how the desktop performance has evolved over the past six major kernel releases. On a few occasions in the past we have provided kernel benchmarks (at one point even benchmarking 12 kernels), but this time around we have included nearly two dozen benchmarks using the Phoronix Test Suite. How has the Linux performance evolved since the release of the Linux 2.6.24 kernel back in early 2008? Well, simply put, the Linux 2.6.29 kernel in a few areas does pack some serious performance boosts.

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For those unfamiliar with GraphicsMagick, this open-source package was originally derived from GraphicsMagick, but since then it has adopted an incredible number of changes. In the most recent release of GraphicsMagick, it now uses OpenMP to provide multi-threaded image processing.

I guess you missed an "ImageMagick" in there
Great to see those kernel improvements with graphical operations. I didn't think the kernel had impact with that..

I can not verify those results with my system. Of course I do not use Ubuntu 8.10 but something Debian 5.0 based and those results are completely different. I only tested the OpenSSL benchmark, with 2.6.29 and running fglrx 9.2 i got 87.87 and with 2.6.28 i got 87.97, that's a very minor diff. Both tests with live mode from usb storage with E8400 cpu at stock speeds, running in performance mode of speedstep.